The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-09-24
THE EVENT OF THE YEAR.
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happened to nave a contract at the time with J. II. Haverly, but that prince of good fellows gracefully re- leased him and he came 10 Kansas City on the next fast train. Hugh Coyle, like Sir Lucius Orig ger, is friend of everybody and everybody's friend, and has had more experience ill giving promi- hence and publicity to big enter prises than any man on the western continent, and that means in all the world. I first met Coyle at the At lanta exposition, where he was using printers ink for mammoth enter prise, and afterwards saw his work at New Orleans, where he co-operated with John w. Ryckman. For six years he was owner and publisher of the Duly Telegram at Washington, D. C., and afterwards the Duly Bul- lettn, at Elmira, N. Y. It will be joyful news to the newspaper men who contemplate visiting the Kansas City exposition to know that Hugh Coyle will be on hand to look after their entertainment, for they all know that whenever he sets out to do the graceful or the courteous thing he does it like prince. One of Coyle's latest achievements was bringing Pres ident Cleveland to the benefit at New York for the actors fund. In fact, if Coyle had gone after the prince of Wales or the czar of Russia he'd have fetched him all the same.
 It is a fortunate thing for Kansas City that Coyle is here, for his per- sonal popularity alone has secured an amount of advertising for this enter prise that many thousand dollars could not have bought.
 Immediately upon reaching Kansas City, MT. Coyle started the publica- tion of The Sun, daily paper, to advertise the exposition, It is circu- lated all over the Union, reaching every other paper in the land. In the words of the directors of the enter prise, "The exposition, through Coyle, has become known from ocean to ocean," The Sun will print the ex- position programme every day and be source of great convenience to vis- itors. He has, however, come here not merely for season, but to stay. And Kansas City is pre- -eminently the place for such genial, wide-awake and contemplating citizen as Coyle.
 Another very able young man con nected with the Kansas City exposi- tion, who deserves substantial recog- milton, is Mir. F. J. W. Hart, the de- signer, architect and superintendent of the building, which, by the bye, is the best appointed structure of it's kind l ever saw-and l have seen them all-and what is remarkable about it, young Hart submitted this model plan i'll twenty -four hours after he was called upon to put on his think ing cap. It was, however, in meas ure, the work of years, for he had never seen an exposition that met his views, and his ingenuity had sought diversion ill studying out a model. He had observed that deficiency of light and air was the difficulty to be obvi- ated, and genuine architectural tri- umph has been achieved in the build- ing here portrayed. Its points of merit are more perfect ventilation, light and acoustic properties and greater strength than any structure of the same size and character heretofore erected. On account of the high winds that at times prevail here, it was necessary to avoid all sharp angles and to make the outline of the roof circular and segmental. In order to cover such roof with glass, the in- vention of a new kind of truss was necessary, for those hitherto in use would have proved so cumbersome and bulky as to obstruct the light. The truss that he invented, while only by l2 inches, and light and airy looking thing it is, will sustain q weight of 140,000 pounds.
 Among the many difficulties that our young architect has encountered in his herculean task arose the fact that after he had laid his plans to build with iron, it was discovered that the iron works and rolling mills of the country were so far behind on orders that six months would be nec- essary to get out the requisite mate- rial; and so he. had to meet the emergency with wood. In order to obviate the usual troubles incident to the shrinkage of timber, he inaugu- rated system ofiron connections that have so absorbed" that shrinkage that while the building had settled an inch and quarter, yet every floor lies dead level and every post and column stands absolutely true in line.
 Before the building is thrown open to the public MT. Hart will practically test its every point and prove it's strength.
 The floor space in this exposition amounts to more than eight acres. It was begun May 26, and since then 10000 yards of earth have been re- moved, 5000 perches of stone ma- l